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Last Sunday, Stephanie Theodore tweeted a photo of a child resting on one of Donald Judd’s shelves at the Tate Modern, prompting a string of miffed tweets. The family has come forward to defend the child: “Their only crime was to be seduced by a ladder of jewel-coloured shelving. Sissi has always been anti-establishment but she would never hurt anybody.” The Tate attests that “[t]he situation was dealt with immediately.” [Evening Standard via ArtUpdate]

Carolina Miranda writes an account of Dave Hickey’s talk Wednesday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He claimed there are no critics…to a room full of critics. He also bemoaned art school as a place where most teachers are “big fucking failures” and complained that identity politics has done little more for the art world than tribalize it. [C-Monster]

Art in General’s curator Courtenay Finn has been appointed curator of the Aspen Art Museum. [Artforum]

President Obama told folks on the floor of a General Electric plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that they can potentially make more with skilled manufacturing than you can with an art history degree. Now the CAA is upset, saying, “Humanities graduates play leading roles in corporations.” Guys, get a grip. We spend a lot of our days complaining about the slim prospects for arts majors. Obama’s not that far out of line. [CAA via: Hyperallergic]

Across the country, the job market still sucks. In a cost-cutting measure the Indianapolis Museum of Art has slashed 11% of its staff positions. The blame has been placed on the museum’s dwindling endowment. [Indiana Public Media]

Tyler Green then slammed Indianapolis Museum of Art director Charles Venable for laying off 21 people and then tweeting about his lunch at an “opulent Beijing eatery.” This is the type of targeted, meaningful criticism we like to see from Green. [ARTinfo]

With Land Art, we think of art and dirt. Nicholas O’Brien, on the other hand, thinks of digitally produced work, and in his latest piece for Bad at Sports, he does a bang up job defining the difference between “place” and “space” on the web. [Bad at Sports]

Yes, Studio 360, we are fully aware that teakettle-Hitler portraitist Charles Krafft is a Holocaust denier, but we doubt he was anyone’s “favorite artist”. [Studio 360]

Oh man. The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) is being threatened with a provincially mandated amalgamation. Dalhousie, a behemoth university, well-known for its law program, is the looking like the most likely candidate. The school has a 17.4 million dollar debt. Over the last 40-some years, NSCAD has been a shaping force in the Canadian and American art scene. (My article on NSCAD faculty member Gerald Ferguson, here.) [Globe and Mail]

Greg Allen wants you to drop him a line if you or anyone you know was in the Poindexter Gallery show in 1958-9, and have a checklist or installation photo. He’s trying to document the early history of Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased DeKooning drawing, which he believes may have been completed by Jasper Johns. [Greg.org]